Re: [patch] use font-lock

From:

Chong Yidong

Subject:

Re: [patch] use font-lock

Date:

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:23:53 -0400

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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> Can someone install it please?
>>> I do not think this can work with mumamo.
>>
>> Can you explain why this change makes life more difficult for Mumamo?
>>
>> I thought that the current nxml highlighting doesn't work with Mumamo
>> either anyway (and Mumamo uses xml-mode's highlighting instead for that
>> reason), so I got the impression that it doesn't make things worse.
>
> I am in a hurry right now, so I can't write much at the moment.
>
> It is true that nxml highlighting does not work, but I think I know
> how to make it work now. The parser from nxml is however already used
> with Mumamo.
I don't think this is a good reason to hold the patch, unless you have
reason to believe that it is impossible to make mumamo work properly
with nxml when nxml uses font-lock. I don't see why that would be the
case.